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Tony Scott ( 2006-03-13 )

Source: The Stars of Hollywood Forever

Born: October 2, 1898 Italy
Died: November 19, 1965 Los Angeles, CA
Yaconelli moved to the U.S. after WWI and performed in vaudeville as a dialectician and comic musician. He left for Hollywood in 1929 and played a string of character parts for nearly 30 years. He played comic relief in a number of Tex Ritter B Westerns during the 1940s. Yaconelli died from lung cancer.